Fibres Stretch News Today

...Special. Ahead of the Paralympics in Japan, the BBCs disability correspondent introduces us to five people who have experienced important moments in the...

Energy—storing prosthesis ever. so if you look at the structure, its millions of tiny little hair—like fibres, and those fibres stretch, just like our tendons do, and so that energy can be stored in those fibres and thats how we came up with the c—shaped cheetah foot. my foundations name is called second wind. im involved in developing a foot for landmine survivors. and they have to go to work. you know, theyre labourers, theyre planting fields, they dont have the luxury of sitting down. f...

Iran down his condominium hallway, i mean fast. that was freedom. that was, that was real inner freedom. i probably built 50, maybe 60 more legs, different types, different arrangements. broke �*em, fell down. till we finally launched our first foot. the first carbon graphite energy—storing prosthesis ever. so if you look at the structure, its millions of tiny little hair—like fibres, and those fibres stretch, just like our tendons do, and so that energy can be stored in those fibres and t...

Different arrangements. broke them, differentarrangements. broke them, fell down. until we finally launched our first foot. the first carbon graphite energy storing prosthesis ever. so if you look at the structure, it is millions of tiny little hair—like fibres, and those fibres stretch, just like our tendons do, and so that energy can be stored in those fibres and that is how we came up with this see —— c shaped foot. it is called second wind. it is for landmine survivors. they have to go...

Dale was one of the worlds leading aerospace graphite engineers. that night we drew up the drawing of what the leg was to look like and within two, maybe three weeks, i built a leg and i attached it to my socket. iran down his condominium hallway, i mean fast. that was freedom. that was, that was real inner freedom. i probably built 50, maybe 60 more legs, different types, different arrangements. broke �*em, fell down. till we finally launched our first foot. the first carbon graphite energy�...

And i attached it to my socket. iran down his condominium hallway, i mean fast. that was freedom. that was, that was real inner freedom. i probably built 50, maybe 60 more legs, different types, different arrangements. broke �*em, fell down. till we finally launched our first foot. the first carbon graphite energy—storing prosthesis ever. so if you look at the structure, its millions of tiny little hair—like fibres, and those fibres stretch, just like our tendons do, and so that energy can...